A newly discovered promoter element "start" points to a shared regulatory syntax for controlling transcription initiation in ...

Agriculture, from the outset, has been made possible by humans tweaking the genes of plants to make them grow faster, produce ...

A newly revealed molecular tug-of-war may have implications for better understanding how a multitude of diseases and ...

Deep in coastal mangroves and even inside our own mouths, biologists are finding that DNA does not always sit in a simple ...

A tiny percentage of our DNA—around 2%—contains 20,000-odd genes. The remaining 98%—long known as the non-coding genome, or ...

Analyzing stochastic cell-to-cell variability can potentially reveal causal interactions in gene regulatory networks.

During development of the digestive system, a complex network of nerves forms around it, creating a "second brain" - the ...